The Myth of the 'Too-Much' Woman

💖 THE NEXT TIME YOU CATCH YOURSELF HOLDING BACK BECAUSE YOU FEAR THAT SOMEONE WILL BE OVERWHELMED, INTIMIDATED, OR THREATENED BY YOUR FEELINGS, YOUR SEXUAL RADIANCE, YOUR CREATIVE AMBITION OR ANY OF YOUR INNATE POWERS - TAKE A BREATH AND MAKE A DECISION 💖

The Myth of the 'Too-Much' Woman

It's vital that women start thinking about all the ways in which they collude with the often insidious, controlling messages from the patriarchy that insist that they stop being 'too much' for the world.

Are you 'too much' when you need to roar from the deepest core of your being when you are giving birth to a baby? It's not any coincidence that birth is an area in which women are rigorously subjected to fear-based control over their own body wisdom. Giving birth consciously and with empowered choice is arguably the most explosive hit of feminine sacred power that a woman can display.

Can it really be acceptable that you are told to 'be quiet', lay conveniently and nicely on your back and have your legs spread open by a member of the medical profession who supposedly knows more about birthing your baby than you do?

Are you 'too much' when you openly demonstrate the miraculous gift of breastfeeding your baby? Have you realised yet that it is the power that you are displaying that provokes so much in those who want to repress you?

Are you 'too much' because you are in touch with emotions and intuitive signals that cause previously controlled environments to be rocked and swayed?

Do you notice when your energy of 'too much' affects people and they suddenly put up resistance to your presence?

Do you realise that it's because of your 'too much-ness' that this is happening, and it is your liberated, intuitive power that is affecting the status quo?

Are you 'too much' when you have creative ideas and ambitions that will expand you exponentially and display to the world just how transformative your abilities really are?

Is it 'too much' for these ideas to eclipse others, including men, and raise you up to a position of influence, power and transformative status?

Are you 'too much' when you embody and express your own sexuality, making your own choices about how you use and experience this gift?

Do you put limits on how you engage with your sexual powers for fear of intimidating others or opening yourself up to judgement about 'the kind of woman' that you are?

I can't prevent myself from roaring with laughter when the idea that men want more sex than women is used: that somehow women are the passive recipients of a man's dominating need for sexual gratification.

Please understand: women are constantly told that it's not acceptable for them to have an rapacious appetite for anything.

Feminine appetites are unappealing to the patriarchy.

Natural appetites for food, power and sex are traits that are beaten out of women (sometimes literally) every day on this planet.

Women have huge, even avaricious appetites for Life and Love. Women possess vast reservoirs of creative and sexual desire. Women are ancient masters of commanding enormous power and influence.

Consider how this energy could potentially overthrow the controlling patriarchal elite in less than a minute - and restore the world back to loving, harmonious balance - if it was unleashed and employed.

I invite you now, as a commitment to your own healing and empowerment, to take a stand against being 'too much'. I've described a few ways in which women are fed a consistent diet of how unacceptable and dangerous their 'too much-ness' is.

But there are so many subtler, and perhaps even more insidious ways in which this control and censorship occurs. Think about all the ways that you may be holding back and even sabotaging your own expansion into the world because you are responding to the socially-accepted prohibition on liberated feminine power and appetite.

I would like to call time on this prohibition of feminine 'too-muchness'. I would like to remind you, that when someone reacts negatively or defensively to your expression of 'too-muchness', that it's their problem, not yours.

What the world is crying out for is for women to revel in their delicious 'too-much' natures. I can guarantee you that this would benefit everyone, men included.

The next time you catch yourself holding back because you fear that someone will be overwhelmed, intimidated or threatened by your feelings, your sexual radiance, your creative ambition or any of your innate powers - take a breath and make a decision.

Why not decide to go ahead and let the 'too-muchness' overflow? If they run, you'll know that they are literally blown away by your divinity. If they oppose you, you'll know that what you are displaying provokes their own fears about being powerful.

Whatever happens, you'll still be safe and unharmed. The worst that can happen is that you meet with jealousy, fear of transformation and resistance to change.

As I said at the beginning, I believe that consciously invoking the energy of your feminine 'too-muchness' is one of the most healing things you can do.

It does take courage - but just being a woman - especially an awakened one - in this world takes courage every day.

Why not give yourself the most loving gift you could possibly give, and blast the world awake with the 'too-muchness' of your Divine Self?

~ Sophie Bashford

Art by Benjamin Eck

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Love the unlovable
Forgive the unforgivable
We are ALL ONE

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In Liefde en Licht.
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